Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-06
MARTINS FERRY.

NJ. S. McGrew, painter, paper hanger
and decorator, West Walnut Street, Mar
tins Ferry, o., p. o. Box 81" x
The G. l.. =. G.. met 1T the residence OF
Mrs. Emma Henderson Oh West Walnut
Street on Tuesday evening.
The Orchard people are making garden,
preparing flower beds and otherwise pre-
pairing for beautiful Spring.
Don Friday afternoon the School Liter
airy Society held q very interesting meet
ing. The subject for debate was, as
England advancing rs a %natiOn?.' The
affirmative was taken by Mr.. Ben Exley
and Miss Chill Miller, and the negative by
Mr.. Paul Morrison and Miss 3lanch MedIll
The Judges decided in favor of the ailirma-
tive, 3 to J.
The matter of opening Fifth and Centre
streets must be attended to ut once. Mr..
i. Spence stated yesterday that unless ar
rangements were made without delay, he
would close up Centre street entirely and
allow no one to use it, compelling school
children and all others to 90 up the De
HaSs road to the First ward school house
and Huey's addition. Mr.. Joseph Bell is
also tired of mOnkeying, and to bring
COUNCIL, NtuOOl pOtIu ttlu III III W
limerick. he proposes to close up that part
of Fifth street which lies north of the
Seabright lane. MessrS. Spence and Bell
have it in their power To cut of all COM
municatiOn with lIuey's addition, except
of the DeiGaSs road, and they seem TO
think since they have offered four PROPOSE
tiOns TO the town, for the opening of good
and much needed streets, which have not
been accepted, they will now force the
fighting home.
A few weeks since Il bottle of carbOliC
acid burst while in the hands of Walter
Darrdh, of this city, which fact was men
toned rs Il matter of news in the REGIS
TER. A few days since the following let
ter was printed in the 81. OrirSriHC Gdzctc.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Feb. Ii, 1887.
Ed. G~AZETTE:-In looking through an
old issue Of your paper last night, found
the following: "a bottle of CarbOlic Acid
exploded in DLrrah's Pharmacy, Martins
Ferry, last week and but for the prompt
action of Walter DaTrah, the prescription
clerk, might have resulted in u serious con-
Migration" Now, | don't know Whether
your correspondent was mislnformed or
not, but if correctly informed, |, as Presi-
dent, aud on behalf of the Drug Clerks
Association of this city, take issue with
Mr.. Darrah IN Carbolic Acid being eXplO-
Sive; in fact, will not even burn. If
agreeable to you, We would like to hear
from others of the ''profeSh" through your
columns. Respectfully,
X. Ed. NEIswANGER.
We will say on behalf of Mr.. Darrah
that the above mentioned bottle of acid
did burst without any apparent cause or
the slightest Jar. Whether Mr.. Neiswanger
would call this an explosion or not We can
not say. OF curse it did not blow the
building down nor in any way diSpOrt
itself like a dynamite bomb. Mr.. n. also
says C4Tbolic acid won't burn. Let him
take Il half ounce of the fluid and place it
IN a stove and touch a match TO it and be
convinced that the president of the Drug
Clerks Association don't know it all, and
car learn something from q Martins Ferry
retailer. You can't take a bucketful of
the acid and light its surface with a match,
which fact is also true concerning carbon
oil, but don't say carbon oil won't burn.
| Write some more, Mr.. N~eiswanger, and
tell us whether natural gas will burn or
not, and if the Drug Clerks Association"
has elected n new officer yet 10 take the
place of the dep0Sed president.
fORSALE OR ltENT.-Fivc acres of land,
known as the Rice property, fronting on
the Martins Ferry and ColcraIn pike. west
of ana adjoining the city of NJ lrtin's Ferry,
Ohio, consisting of about three acres of
vineyard and the remainder an orchard Of
good iruit hearing trees. For terms en-
quire of Abram LIsll, Agent, Martins Fer
~, Ohio.
On Friday night Misses Alma ChcsSell,
Anna and Kate l~talSton, and Jessie Swartz
entertained the A. T. +. +. society with
some additions, ut the residence of Miss
SwartZ, on First street. The affair was
gotten up To serve rs a kind Of reunion, il
being the first time the crowd has been
brought together so nearly in its entirety
in two years. The usual social amuse-
ments of the crowd, haIring the merry
dance, were INDUCED in till eleven o'clock
when an elegant luncheon, consisting Of
ice cream, cake, fruit, nuts and cOnfec-
tiOneries arrived. After expressing, by
action, their appreciation Of the tooth
some Tepast, amusements were resumed,
anu hleiiy mihluS Hclu luIl sway I'LL the
"wee sma" hour of one, when the hap
py party dispersed. Those present were
Misses Flora Williams, Maggie Kerr, Liz
zie and Blanche Medill, S. Il. Thomas,
Jennie Dickson, Mary Robinson, Ida B.
HOyle, Mary Davidson, Maggie StrOehlein
of Wheeling, BERTHE Blackford, Ella Camp
bell, May and Edith McKim, Maude and
Madge Newland, Hettie U~pdegraff, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Mckee, Wilson Kerr,
Ed. w. Reid, Charles Hoyle, Walter Oar
rah, Frank link, Charles w. Swartz, Joe
Pennington, Jesse Bayless, John W. Crooks,
W. r. Adrian, Will n. Thomas, c. III.
Osler, William Lewis, Will Dickson, Geo.
G, RalstOn, Will Crowell and Charles Van
Pelt.
Last weeks o. J.. Nears states that Mrs.
Charles Lewis is seriously i'll. By request
Of Mr.. Lewis we state that tits Mrs. Nancy
Lewis, mother of the gentleman mentioned.
Contractor Rumsey has had a force OF